Holbrook District

For guidance on planning your revegetation or restoration site (size, shape, species, density of planting) refer to chapters four and five of this site.

Remember: good quality vegetation sites may not need revegetation at all. Appropriate management can encourage natural regeneration.

General Native Vegetation Profile:

Flats

Rising country & low hills

Rocky outcrop

LANDFORM	Flats
VEGETATION TYPE	Red Gum woodland (creeks)
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Alluvial soils & yellow earths.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Along Billabong Creek
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	# A. implexa	Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
	Eucalyptus blakelyi	Blakely’s Red Gum
	E. bridgesiana	Apple Box
	E. camaldulensis	River Red Gum
	E. melliodora	Yellow Box
	# not noted in area but suggested for planting
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa	Sweet Bursaria
	Callistemon sieberi	River Bottlebrush
	Kunzea ericoides	Burgan
	+# Leptospermum continentale	Prickly Tea-tree
	# not noted in area but suggested for planting + soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS	Austrostipa spp.	Spear Grass
	* Bothriochloa macra	Red-leg Grass
	+ Carex spp.	Sedge
	Rytidosperma spp.	Wallaby Grass
	+ Juncus spp.	Rush
	Microlaena stipoides	Weeping Grass
	+ Phragmites australis	Common Reed
	Poa spp.	Tussock Grass
	# Templetonia stenophylla	Templetonia
	Themeda triandra	Kangaroo Grass
	+ Typha spp.	Cumbungi
	* generally higher country + creeklines/soaks/poorly drained sites # not noted in area but suggested for planting

LANDFORM	Rising country & low hills
VEGETATION TYPE	Blakely’s Red Gum & Yellow Box Woodland
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Alluvium – sand, silt, gravel & clay. Also granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Between Hume Highway & Morgan’s Ridge
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	A. implexa	Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
	Brachychiton populneus	Kurrajong
	Eucalyptus albens	White Box
	E. blakelyi	Blakely’s Red Gum
	E. bridgesiana	Apple Box
	E. macrorhyncha	Red Stringybark
	E. melliodora	Yellow Box
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	# Acacia genistifolia	Spreading/Early Wattle
	# A. paradoxa	Kangaroo Thorn
	# A. rubida	Red-stemmed Wattle
	# A. verniciflua	Varnish Wattle
	# Bursaria spinosa subsp. spinosa	Sweet Bursaria
	Kunzea ericoides	Burgan
	+ # Leptospermum continentale	Prickly Tea-tree
	# not noted in area but suggested for planting + soaks/poorly drained sites
GROUND COVERS	Austrostipa spp.	Spear Grass
	* Bothriochloa macra	Red-leg Grass
	+ Carex spp.	Sedge
	Rytidosperma spp.	Wallaby Grass
	+ Juncus spp.	Rush
	Microlaena stipoides	Weeping Grass
	+ Phragmites australis	Common Reed
	Poa spp.	Tussock Grass
	# Templetonia stenophylla	Templetonia
	Themeda triandra	Kangaroo Grass
	+ Typha spp.	Cumbungi
	* generally higher country + creeklines/soaks/poorly drained sites # not noted in area but suggested for planting

LANDFORM	Rocky outcrop
VEGETATION TYPE	Dry sclerophyll forest – Dwyer’s Red Gum, Red Stringybark & Currawang.
GEOLOGY & SOILS	Granite, gneissic granite & gneiss. Sandy granite soils.
LOCATION EXAMPLE	Morgan’s Ridge
TREES >8M	Acacia dealbata	Silver Wattle
	A. doratoxylon	Currawang
	A. implexa	Hickory Wattle/Lightwood
	Allocasuarina verticillata	Drooping Sheoak
	Eucalyptus dwyeri	Dwyer’s Red Gum
	E. goniocalyx	Long-leaf Box
	* E. macrorhyncha	Red Stringybark
	E. polyanthemos	Red Box
	Exocarpos cupressiformis	Native Cherry
	* mainly S & SE aspects
SHRUBS 1.5 – 8m	Acacia buxifolia	Box-leaf Wattle
	A. verniciflua	Varnish Wattle
	Calytrix tetragona	Common Fringe-myrtle
	Persoonia rigida	Hairy Geebung
GROUND COVERS	Austrostipa spp.	Spear Grass
	Bothriochloa macra	Red-leg Grass
	Brachyloma daphnoides	Daphne Heath
	Xerochrysum viscosum	Sticky Everlasting
	Chloris truncate	Windmill Grass
	Rytidosperma spp.	Wallaby Grass
	Glycine clandestine	Twining Glycine
	Hardenbergia violacea	Purple Coral Pea
	Hibbertia obtusifolia	Grey Guinea-flower
	H. sericea	Silky Guinea-flower
	Isotoma axillaris	Rock Isotome
	Microlaena stipoides	Weeping Grass
	Stypandra glauca	Nodding Blue-lily
	Xanthorrhoea spp.	Grass Tree